Well, I got back from Vegas last night at around 9:30. I wound up not taking the laptop with me (so obviously I couldn't blog from Vegas). The trip was fun as usual. I always love going to Vegas and seeing everything. If it just wasn't so damn hot outside on the strip, we probably would have walked it more....or maybe not, judging from the amount of snoring my travelling buddies did on the return trip. :)

There's one hotel I just love, which if you've read the blog in the past you should know which one. The Bellagio has to be my favorite of all the ones on the Strip, with Luxor and Mandalay Bay coming in a close second and third. The Fountians of Bellagio are just breathtaking...there's no other word for them. We got REALLY lucky too. We were really tired the first night in Vegas and it was around 11pm when we decided to call it a night. (Okay that may sound early to some, but you try getting up at 4am and driving for 5 hours and see how sapped your strength is!) Anyway, we wound up getting in the car and I though if we time it just right, we might get to see them as we drive by. Well it turns out we did. "My Heart Will Go On" with Celine Dion was playing as we pulled up and we got lucky enough that tons of people were stopping traffic so we wound up parked watching it for a couple minutes.

The next day, we hit the Strip again and wound up at Bellagio, this time around 12 noon the Fountains were going off but no music (maintenance work was going on). But we stayed around until 3pm, when the Fountains launched into "The Star-Spangled Banner" with Whitney Houston to start the day, followed by the first official performance, which was "Time to Say Goodbye" with Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli. That song just really works so well with the elegance of the water and the hotel, and was a perfect send-off to our leaving Vegas.